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Hi,

I am casting over 200 6"x12" concrete cylindrical specimens in different PVC strength to do my research on PVC-Confined concrete. These specimens will be then wrapped by either CFRP, GFRP and AFRP, with and without PVC.
I was just wondering is there any way that before running my tests, I could implement simulation on the following 6"x12" concrete specimen configurations:

CFRP Confined cylinder
GFRP Confined cylinder
AFRP Cylinder cylinder
(For the above three I know con_frp is usable)

PVC+CFRP Confined cylinder
PVC+GFRP Confined cylinder
PVC+AFRP Confined cylinder

Also, I will run both monotonic and cyclic uniaxial compression test on cylinders. I do appreciate any idea on running PVC-confined simulations on 6"x12" concrete cylinders.

Dear fakharifar.mostafa,

We confess not to be terribly familiar with the behaviour of 'PVC+CFRP' material and, as such, do not really feel to be in a position to provide with solid advice on which of the material models currently implemented in SeismoStruct one could adopt to represent this. Hopefully other users might have some experience on this front and will be able to share some hints.

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